kamelmeg

English: Translation
Expressive, emphatic, or emotionally marked term for “hand.”
Morphology
[ROOT: Kamet]
Notes

kamelmeg
n. hand.

Expressive, emphatic, or emotionally marked term for “hand.”

Currently attested in the Angry Register.

USAGE

Ay ta mari’gena-ati’ nya mga kamelmeg mo! “Oh how come your hands are filthy.”

NOTE

May represent an expressive expansion of kamet rather than an unrelated lexeme.

Not acceptably morphologically productive.

Possible relationship:

kamet
→ kamelmeg

through expressive infixation, expansion, or fossilized elaboration.

Further evidence needed.